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The Best Sunnies for your Skin Tone

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Dark Cool Skin
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to go extreme color-picking in order to bring out your best reflection. If you have dark cool skin, just stick to darker shades of pinks and blues.

Gucci
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Dark Warm Skin
Finally, if you have dark warm skin, fiery hues will do wonders to your complexion. Think red, orange, and even yellow shades!

Illesteva
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Dark Warm Skin
Finally, if you have dark warm skin, fiery hues will do wonders to your complexion. Think red, orange, and even yellow shades!

Tom Ford Eyewear
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Light Cool Skin
If you have a light skin tone, odds are you’ve probably steered clear from the sun for as long as you can remember. We have one word for you though: sunscreen! Once you bathe yourself in that, consider picking blue and rosy sunglasses.

Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci
 

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Light Cool Skin
If you have a light skin tone, odds are you’ve probably steered clear from the sun for as long as you can remember. We have one word for you though: sunscreen! Once you bathe yourself in that, consider picking blue and rosy sunglasses.

Dior

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Light Warm Skin
This type of skin tone demands neutral or dark colors such as brown or gold shades.

Céline
 
 

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Light Warm Skin
This type of skin tone demands neutral or dark colors such as brown or gold shades.

Chanel

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Medium Cool Skin
In this case, you need a color to highlight your natural pinks, such as blue or green sunglasses.

Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci

 
 

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Medium Cool Skin
In this case, you need a color to highlight your natural pinks, such as blue or green sunglasses.

Miu Miu
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Medium Warm Skin
You need sunglasses to be more striking than your skin tone, so you might as well go for orange hues.

Gentle Monster
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Medium Warm Skin
You need sunglasses to be more striking than your skin tone, so you might as well go for orange hues.

Karen Walker
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Dark Cool Skin
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to go extreme color-picking in order to bring out your best reflection. If you have dark cool skin, just stick to darker shades of pinks and blues.

Dior
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It’s your classic shopping spree montage moment: girl goes into boutique, tries on every single pair of sunglasses and ends up leaving with nothing because she needs a second opinion. Then she comes back with her mom/friend and tries on the “it-glasses” and suddenly everything falls back into place and a blinding light comes shining through.

But even in these movies, one thing you’ll always notice is that the girl seems to be in sync with her shades, ergo, she matches her skin tone to her choice. Okay, we know we’ve implanted a thousand questions in your mind right now, but the only question you should be asking yourself is: what’s my skin tone? What you want to do is check the underside of your wrist. If you have a pinkish color with blueish veins, then you have cool undertones. If you have an apricot color with greenish veins, then you have warm undertones. Once you have that figured out, just click through our Photo Gallery below and you’ll finally have an answer for this lifelong mystery!

 

Cindy Menassa